Barbara B. Buchholz

If you want to understand the process of printmaking, one of the best ways is to visit Anchor Graphics. Tucked away in Ukrainian Village in a two-story brick building, the...

What do you do with scraps of wood when you're one of the world's largest custom picture framers? Artists' Frame Service, headquartered in Chicago, started a business called Abacus Design,...

Some of the elements associated with Margaret Wharton's works -- chairs, books and brushes -- reappear in her "Discordant Voices" show at the Jean Albano Gallery. But the 12 mixed-media...

Sherry Koppel creates richly textured, colored and geometric-patterned bed quilts from vintage fabric squares. She pieces them together using elaborate stitches and sometimes silk cording or ribbon. This may seem...

Don't expect to look at Christian Vincent's works from a distance. His large, figurative oil paintings -- primarily interior scenes rendered in intense maroons, greens and blacks -- pull viewers...

No matter how knowledgeable some people are about the early 20th Century art movement known as Fauvism, they may be unaware of one of its foremost practitioners -- the Hungarian...

Harriet Tubman's efforts to help her people escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad were so heroic that she earned the nickname "Moses." Her experiences in leading blacks to the...

For years Jack Arslanian often had to tell customers to go elsewhere. Owner of several Pak Mail store franchises in Chicago, which shipped small packages (usually containing items under 20...

Creative juices don't flow in smooth eight-hour stretches.They spurt and sputter, which is why artists who have studios away from their residences often want a second space in which to...

`I drive a lot and am very aggressive and impatient," says Chicago artist Ray Yoshida, explaining the inspiration for his exhibit of oil paintings in which cars whiz here and...